Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ready for courses in elocution: Vol. 5 of Modern Classics, 35 cents. Fletcher's Advanced Readings, 95 cents. Attention is called to some general books recently added to the stock, among which are Emerson's Essay's, first series, 10 cents. Emerson's Works, 11 vole., $12.83. English Men of Letters, 53 cents per vol. Dickens' Works, 30 vols., $30.00. Hawthorne's Works, 12 vols., $16.00. American Statesmen, 84 cents per vol. Colton's new Portfolio Scrap Book, containing 31 envelopes, with index, $1.40. A good line of leather traveling bags. Pizard's La France, in 1789, is ready...
...Edward W. Emerson...
...Voted, to establish two scholarships with an income at present of $200 each, in the Academic Department, to be called the George Emerson Lowell Scholarships, and excellence either in the Classics or in Athletic contests to be considered as one of the desirable qualifications for candidates." The italics are ours...
Quite a large audience assembled in Sever 6 last evening, to listen to the reading of Mr. Dana's dissertation. To appreciate Emerson's position in the world of modern thought, it is necessary to study the philosophical attitude of his contemporaries. The nineteenth century is characterized by pessimism, and it is chiefly through the abandonment of faith in the revelation of the bible, that such men as Voltaire, Byron, Tennyson, Swinburne, Goethe and DeMusset, were lead into this line of thought. Poets are quoted as examples, for more than all other men they give expression to the thought...
Into this circle of pessimists was born Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man gifted with a large cheerful nature, ready to face the great questions of the day, but never made despondent by them. Although he was not contented with the age he lived in, he firmly believed that it was better than all that had preceded it. As for the future, his firm faith was that it would be better than the present. Utterances of Carlyle, George Eliot, and many other writers show with what delight his pure hopeful philosophy was welcomed by the intellectual world. He had many traits...